Virus? Not really. More like a trojan/rootkit.
Mark, what you sent to magnet was just some random (but hacked) guy's
post to macintouch, as you referenced. I don't think it sheds light on
any sort of newly-discovered vulnerability. This fellow hasn't posted
any analysis of how his box was compromised in the first place.
Generally, OS X machines are hackable like any other FreeBSD machine.
For example, I know of an OS X user here on campus had turned on ssh,
enabled the root account, and left the root password blank. Hacked?
Yup. A new vulnerability or a new virus? No.
-Greg
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